Leong Tze Yun's Brief Biography

 EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                                                    Cambridge, MA, USA

• 1994 - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• 1990 - S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• 1987 - S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

National University of Singapore                                                                                            Singapore

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, School of Computing (SoC)

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

National University of Singapore                                                                                            Singapore

• Co-ordinator, Medical Computing Laboratory, SoC
  Oct 1995 to date

• Leader, Biomedical Decision Engineering Group
  Apr 2001 to date

• Co-Chair, Singapore-MIT Alliance Computer Science Program (SMACS)
  Jun 2002 to Dec 2004

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Editorship for journals:

• Editorial Board Member (2001 - ), Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier.

• Associate Editor (2002 - ), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier.

• Associate Editor (2007-  ), Editorial Board Member (2005 - ) Methods of Informatics in Medicine, Schattauer

Program/organizing committees (selected):

International

• Member, Editorial Committee, World Congress of Medical Informatics (2007).

• Member, Program Committee, Adaptive user modeling workshop in Conference on User Modeling (UM 05), England  (2005)

• Co-Chair, Program/Organizing Committee, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium on “Challenges to Decision Support in a Changing World”, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA (2005)

• Member, Student Paper Competition Program Committee, World Congress of Medical Informatics (2004).

• Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in BioMedicine (KDbM-04), Auckland, New Zealand (2004)

• Member, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium on Interactive and Mixed-initiative Decision Theoretic Systems, (1998).

• Regional

• Member, Program Committee, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2007, Nanjing, China

• Member, Program Committee, Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference (APAMI) 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.

• Member, Program Committee Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2006, Guilin, China

• Member, Program Committee, Asian Computer Science Conference (ASIAN 04), Chiangmai, Thailand (2004)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Eta Kappa Nu  (Honor Society for Electrical Engineers)
• Member, Sigma Xi
• Member, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers  (IEEE) Computer Society
• Member, American Medical Information Association (AMIA)
• Member, Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM)